They're hatching!!! Live Video and time-lapse of 1st hatch

[jmorriso]

I had 2 hatch early this morning. One of them the kids got to watch before getting ready for school, which was fun! I've got a webcam up so I can keep an eye on them from work:

live hatching camera

I had my camera set up last night to take a picture every 45 seconds. I took those pictures and made a time-lapse. Its not as good as I hoped, but its still pretty cool.

Egg Hatching Time-Lapse

 

[Melinda35]

That is awesome that you can monitor from work. Thanks for sharing! I will definitely be checking back.

 

[jmorriso]

I added a link to a time-lapse of my first hatch.

 

[adyhart1]

thats very cool i would have never thought to do that with the web cam!

 

[galanie]

OMG I know what TV channel I'm watching today! Hatch cam!

 

[newlyweds]

Wow very cool! I wish I had a cam set up on mine.

 

[galanie]

Ooooh is that a pip I see on the lower middle egg?

 

[jmorriso]

yes, it is. It was there this morning, but it wasn't big enough to see on the camera. Hopefully, its starting to zip and that is why its showing up now!

 

[Pascal PicklePants]

Very nice work!

i have babies due on he 5th of Feb

and would love to do this.

What program did you use? If you don't mind me asking.

 

[jmorriso]

for the live video I used ustream which is a web-based stream so no program needed. For the time-lapse I used the logitech software and auto-click. I set up auto-click to take a picture and save it on the logitech software every 45 seconds. I think if I had to do it again I'd go down to 30 seconds. Then I took the 600 or so pics and picked about 150 of them that had the hatch in it and used windows movie maker to make the movie using these instructions: http://www.tucows.com/article/2058

Looks like the 3rd one hatched while I was at lunch. It zipped and hatched in less than an hour! I was hoping to get on and press the record button when it was starting to go, but I missed it. Maybe I'll get the next one.